Louise

So that i can weave truth and fantasy painting and photographing the subject often reworking with mixed media, video and viewer interaction. Always in the process of becoming rather than finished. temporary as it is evolving
My body of work demonstrates my commitment to social equality in media representation, my love for sharing often little known stories of ordinary and extraordinary people, and my belief that the personal is political.
I am particularly interested in memory in relationship to history. I believe personal stories can help to bring into question stereotypical portrayals that sometimes dominate art history. They also help to create a public record of little known and neglected contemporary histories for future generations to come. Many experiences of everyday modern individuals are hard to pigeon hole i like to find a range of extreme experiences and bring them together in a visual minestrone infact much like real life normality never as predictable or believable as first assumed.
Memory can let you down and perspectives shift Thus fragmentation becomes an important way of maintaining an idea that shifts with the telling. ( lollypop lady story it rained in one tale and was summer in another)
Overzealous Lollypop lady is addressed to grandmothers who embody woman’s physical decline and to all our elders who defy the limitations and barriers of labels.